Talk:2975: Classical Periodic Table

I checked the Actinides and it looks like the criteria for "fire" is half-life < 1 day. SpriteGuard (talk) 18:11, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

I would have found it funnier, if only on table-esthetic grounds, if all radioactive elements had been filed as Fire. (I'm a chemist.) 198.41.242.175 07:58, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

notice how this periodic table predates the apartheid state of Israel. really makes you think, huh? 172.70.85.153 19:43, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

I don't see how this comic relates to the matter of Israel in any way. BunsenH (talk) 20:27, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

Xir, this is a wiki that explains a web comic for nerds. 172.71.150.128 04:52, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

The four classical Elements are still recognised by scientists; They just repurposed the word "element", and so have adopted "state" to describe this older classification - Solid, Liquid, Gas and Plasma exactly map to the classical 'elements'. I think we can forgive the medieval alchemical community for not recognising Bose-Einstein Condensate as their fifth element. 172.68.64.149 21:05, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

what about non-newtonian fluids? 42.book.addict (talk) 22:17, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

They're fluids... turns out. 172.70.126.229 04:47, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

If the 2016 movie "Spectral" is to be believed, then Bose–Einstein condensates maps to ghosts. 172.68.0.167 23:26, 21 August 2024 (UTC)

He's done this comparison between 'classical' and 'modern' elements before... for example in comic #965. 172.70.58.3 05:52, 22 August 2024 (UTC)

I did what I could for the Fire section earlier, and I've just gone back and added some relevant What-If context for both Mercury and Astatine. The latter is nasty stuff - lucky it can't really exist under standard temperature and pressure, or we'd all be screwed. Darkwolf218 (talk) 08:45, 22 August 2024 (UTC)